Baroness Amos: My right honourable friend the Prime Minister has made the following Statement.
	On 29 March 2007 (Official Report, cols. 133-35WS), my right honourable friend the Prime Minister announced details of machinery of government changes to the Home Office and the then Department for Constitutional Affairs. Alongside this, he announced the creation of new Cabinet committees on crime and the criminal justice system and on security and terrorism. He is today announcing the membership and terms of reference of the new committees.
	Responsibility for the National Offender Management Service, and for criminal law and sentencing policy, moved from the Home Office to the new Ministry of Justice on 9 May. Public protection and crime reduction will continue to be the core focus of government policy. The new Ministerial Committee on Crime and the Criminal Justice System (CJS) will take this forward.
	The role of the Home Secretary and the capabilities of the Home Office in facing the terrorist threat have been strengthened and a new Office of Security and Counter Terrorism has been established in the Home Office. The Committee on Security and Terrorism (ST) will oversee this work, including international terrorism and counter radicalisation. It will be supported by two sub-committees: Counter Radicalisation (ST(CR)); and Protection and Resilience (ST(PR)). The existing sub-committees on International Terrorism (DOP(IT)) and Protective Security and Resilience (DOP(IT)(PSR)) will therefore no longer operate.
	The list of Cabinet committees, which is available in the Libraries of both Houses and on the Cabinet Office website, will be updated in due course to reflect these changes.